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Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
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The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
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Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
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Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons
A collection on the environmental history of the Middle East that covers five broad themes: agriculture and pastoralism; water; nature and culture; marine environments, and environmental monitoring.
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Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over Property Rights
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
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Pan's Travail: Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
This environmental history of ancient civilizations seeks to demonstrate that environmental degradation is not exclusively a problem of the modern world.
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National Parks: Rights and the Common Good
An analysis of public parks in the United States, from a communitarian perspective.
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Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.